36 MAY 2017 Consulting®
Pierre Jacquet says working for an industry that ultimately improves the health and outcomes of patients suffering from
diseases is what motivates him to
excel day in and day out. And it’s
safe to say that clients have been the
beneficiaries of all that motivation.

Many projects he’s led have had
significant impacts on L.E.K.’s clients’ businesses and performance,
including: worked with a leading
pharmaceutical company trying to
build leadership in the new area of
immuno-oncology; enabling a major M&A transaction ($10 billion)
that enabled a global pharmaceutical company to expand its footprint
in a new disease area; and, supporting the restructuring of public biotech companies and directed them
in refocusing their operations on
focused R&D investments.

Jacquet is the Global Head of theBiopharmaceuticals & Life Scienc-es practice and a Managing Directorand Partner in L.E.K. Consulting’sBoston office. He is also a mem-ber of the firm’s Global LeadershipTeam. “I am proud of leading ourGlobal Life Sciences practice andsupporting my colleagues acrossthe globe to grow our practice andbetter serve together internationallife sciences companies,” he says.

Jacquet has more than 20 years
of experience in corporate and
business unit strategy consulting,
R&D portfolio management and
mergers and acquisitions advisory
services. He has worked across
many life science industry segments and has assisted clients with
issues such as strategic opportunity
evaluations, product prioritization,
product planning and commercialization, strategic partnering, strategic activation and mergers and
acquisitions.

Over the course of his 20 years-plus in the industry, Jacquet has
served more than 200 clients across
the globe and enabled the transformation of more than 30 mid-cap
biotech companies that ultimately
enabled some $60 billion of M&A
value to shareholders, among many
other accomplishments.

As for the keys to his career suc-cesses, he says it’s “the intersectionof deep content knowledge of theindustry and cumulative experienceof 20 years serving biopharma cli-ents. The delivery of this expertisecombine with trust-based relation-ships with clients has been the big-gest factor to my success.”As far as winning the Top 25award, Jacquet says it’s nice to berecognized but he still has much leftto accomplish in his career. “ForL.E.K., the award gives externalrecognition for the hard work andeffort that the Life Sciences team isputting into the business day in andout,” he says. “And for my clients,it affirms their decision to trust meand my team to help them achievetheir mission.”

PIERRE JACQUET / L.E.K. CONSULTING“Solving complex business problems. There is nothing more motivating than being presentedwith the intellectual challenge of a problem to solve. Beyond the solution to businessissues is also the execution of recommendations. This is something I have been focusing onmore recently by developing a team of colleagues who focus on supporting our clients onimplementing and activating strategic plans. I never tire from responding to this call.”